Loads of fun

My laundry room is finally totally finished and I'm so happy about it! I had gotten a lot of it done about a month ago, but then I had to wait to make a few more purchases because we were spending money on our yard and we also were busy with the Wasatch Back.              It was really hard to get good pictures because it's a pretty small space and even though I tried it at night with the flash and during the day with the sunlight, it was still hard! I'm not a pro photographer geez...anyway, my inspiration for the laundry room was this:  *from kevinandamanda.com

Unfortunately I don’t have the sweet front loaders yet, or the space for the nifty laundry tower, but it’s close right?!

My mom had bought me the rug from BB&B for Christmas so I just used that until I finally finished the whole room awhile later.               I decided to paint the walls a deep blue to coordinate with the rug and still look good with the colors in the rest of our house. I LOVE the color and Behr paint + primer is really great and I would highly recommend it. I found the awesome grass cloth roman shade on cheapo sale at Lowes and made it work even though it was extra long.                                 

I got a set of unfinished wood cabinets from Lowes that I primed and painted white. Dan took the lead and installed them (with my glorious help) for me. He also installed the hanging bar to hang clothes that don’t fit on the drying rack.               On the doors of the cabinets, I decided to use paintable beadboard wallpaper to add a little interest and make the cheap cabinets look a little more special. I got a huge roll on sale at Lowes (notice a trend here…) for around $7 or so. It was really easy to do and I love it! It’s a subtle change, but I think it looks great along with the clear glass knobs.                                          Sorry for the yellowish look, they are really bright white, but I don’t know how to take pictures and my 4 year old camera doesn’t help :)              We finally got a “real” ironing board after over 2 years of marriage! We had kept my crappy brightly colored table board from college but we never used it (who irons anyway?). We finally bought this one and a hanger for the wall for it. Surprisingly the cover matches the room! But maybe I’ll get a cute cover for it at some point.

I ordered a broom/mop hanger off of Amazon and it’s awesome! It’s like magic and it holds my broom and mops perfectly. It was only $13 I think too!            So now I have a spiffy new laundry room and it really makes me happy! I didn’t spend much and I kept it simple.

Maybe some day in my future dream home I’ll have a huge laundry room/mud room like one of these:                   I love the cool locker-type style for kids to keep backpacks, shoes, boots and snow/swim/dirty clothes.                    I will keep day dreaming about that, but for now, I’m really happy with my current dream home and my cute laundry room! Now I have a laundry area that is functional and stylin’!   

4th of July

I have a lot of pictures in this post because I took a lot of cute ones so I'm just posting most of them! And I installed Windows 7 on my laptop and now Windows Live Writer won't work! Ughhhh so I'm working on getting it installed, but I have to use blogger to upload which pretty much sucks. So because of that, these pictures are in backwards order...oh well.Starting with Saturday night (because I'm going backwards here...) we went to the Hooper City fireworks with Jon and Julie. They were only a few minutes away from our house, we got a great view and they show was awesome! It worked out great! Cute family :) Wellyn had on his Lightning McQueen pajamas and also had his Cars sleeping bag. So cute.Jon was throwing Wellyn around before the fireworks and Wellyn seriously loves it.
Cutest child ever. I love this kid.

Yay for us being cute. Lovin' the fireworks.

Since we got our fire pit finished, we invited everyone over for a weenie/s'mores roast. It was pretty last minute, but everyone ended up coming and we had a ton of fun! We broke in the fire pit and it was great. The weather was amazing for July and we had a good time.Wellyn helped us put out the fire. He loved being a fireman for a few minutes.

We had some sparklers and Wellyn did a few and it looks like he was trying to take out Julie haha.

We don't have a fence between our backyard neighbors yet, and they don't mind if the kids play on their swingset and tramp. It is great for the kids!

Mia is the cutest thing ever. She has the chubbiest cheeks I've ever seen and she has such a little attitude. It is so funny to see her facial expressions and she always seems so annoyed when everyone tries to make her smile or laugh.

Ryan and Grandpa enjoying the fire.

Sarah loved the s'mores. This is the face she makes when you tell her to smile!

Dan is happiest with a s'more in each hand.

Ryan eats more than an adult man. He will eat anything and everything. He found a bag of chips that fell off the food table and he just sat down and cleaned them out. It's so funny to watch him always begging everyone for food and eating so much!

Dan and Everett having a good time.

Sarah ate tons of Doritos and I called her the orange monster. She loved it :)

We had tons of fun with everyone at our house and the fire pit was a success! We love it and Dan and I have had several fires already (we're roasting tonight too). Dan says he will be sitting by a roaring fire in the middle of winter, but I will probably retire the fire pit for the season at the end of fall!